Matt Lee

I'm Matt Lee, one of the folks behind behind Foo Communications, a company/experiment in music and social media, including Libre.fm, a new social media platform that offers musicians exclusive promotion and play in exchange for licensing their music under a free culture license, and GNU social, a federated social networking project.

heise on-line - WOS 4: Free software representatives criticize Creative Commons licenses

With the choice of Creative Commons licenses Creative Commons users decide usually for the more restrictive variants. Free software representatives criticized OS 4 in Berlin Creative Common initiator Larry Lessig with the Wizard OF for the fact that thereby the original idea of a larger movement for free culture becomes counter cross-hatched. “If I the FreeCulture movement regard, am really anxious I,� said FOSS Aktivist Benjamin Mako Hill of WITH Media lab. , Thus which “liberty� actually my, is missing to Hill, a general definition of it. “Creative Commons did not bring a movement toward “works any longer not protected�,� to criticized Hill. Today less programmer would generally program free software than still in the 90s-years. The “municipality� must inform itself therefore in principle over it where one wants.

English translation or Original German article.